Joint Security Area (Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA)

A Myung Film Production

Director: PARK Chan-Wook

Starring: LEE Young-Ae

LEE Byung-Heon

SONG Kang-Ho

KIM Tae-Woo

SHIN Ha-Kyun

Three days have passed since the hostilities at JSA.

Efforts to hold a joint investigation between the Koreas have failed...

but negotiators recently achieved a key breakthrough.

Authorities from both countries have agreed this afternoon...

to collaborate on the investigation with NNSC.

While tensions have been running high...

amid suspicions of North Korea's nuclear programme...

and advance of US naval vessels...

into the East Sea.

Spokesmen from both Koreas have commented on the necessity...

to resolve this issue with caution in a reasonable way...

so as to avoid having this trivial conflict escalate into a war.

The subsequent agreement has the NNSC dispatch judiciaries...

with investigative experience from Switzerland and Sweden.

Scheisse!

If a battle starts, then shoot the bastards.

You couldn't kill even one?

You call yourself a soldier?

I thought my primary mission was to rescue Sgt. Lee.

- So... - So?

So that's why you couldn't aim straight?

Was your order to shoot down trees?

My order was to scare them off and give cover to the rescue team.

What? Hey, hey.

- You sure you weren't the one scared off? - I didn't want to start a war, sir.

What? A soldier afraid of war?

You stupid...

What is it?

Reporting, sir!

War doesn't break out that easily. Dismissed.

Yes, sir!

This incident...

isn't it rather obvious?

Some commies kidnap our soldier...

and claim he crossed over voluntarily.

- Am I right? - Correct, sir!

Our boy... What's your name again?

- Sgt. Lee Soo-Hyuk, sir! - Right, Soo-Hyuk.

Let's wrap this up quickly so Soo-Hyuk can take a leave of absence.

Our boy here took out two of the bastards.

He's a hero!

Wouldn't you say, Maj. Jean?

Your opinion will be noted in the investigation.

The NNSC will now be taking custody of the suspect.

No South Korean military officials may enter without my permission.

Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission?

There are two kinds of people in this world...

commie bastards, and the commie bastards' enemies.

Neutral has no place here.

You have to choose sides.

You're from law school, right?

I trust you'll make a wise choice.

I'm Maj. Sophie Jean from Switzerland.

This is Capt. Persson from Sweden.

He's still in shock.

He was hit with a blunt object.

That bruise pretty much proves that he was kidnapped.

Deposition

He looks like one of ours!

Get down! Soo-Hyuk!

South Korea's hostile provocation...

to our North defence camp in JSA...

Right over the Military Demarcation Line.

Doesn't it seem a bit acted out?

This is where Lt. Choi's body was found.

And that's where Pvt. Jung fell.

A bunker...

Puppet soldiers of the South, stop intruding into the North.

Pvt. Jung was a talented artist.

He even won a prize in a national contest.

He was popular among the soldiers for drawing their girlfriends.

Abundant Rice is Communism

As soon as Lee Soo-Hyuk left our post...

Southern soldiers stormed in as if on cue.

It's very lucky that Sgt. Oh has survived.

Otherwise the South would have been spouting lies...

shamelessly blaming it on us.

That's exactly what they're saying now.

Who's going to believe it?

We have a witness.

Don't get up.

This is Maj. Jean from the NNSC.

Are you okay?

No big deal. It's nothing.

This is from a terrorist in Libya. Sliced me with his knife.

Once in Egypt, I had to scrape out shrapnel with a bayonet.

Wanna see?

Really?

Shall we take a look?

I'm glad you're okay.

Now then, can you tell me about that night?

It's all in my deposition.

You mean the deposition you made and signed while in a coma?

Stupid wench.

What did you just say?

Why is it you all have depositions, but nobody will talk to me?

Lieutenant, tell us about your vacation.

It was the same as any other.

- Come on! - It was nothing special.

Get down!

Shot twice.

Once in the right chest...

crushing the ribs and passing through the lung.

But that wasn't the fatal shot.

The second one was the real killer.

Judging from the angle, it was shot at point blank.

As for the next one...

a total of eight shots.

Unbelievable.

Shot from such a close range, they went right through him.

The first shot hit his face, probably killing him instantly.

The rest were just shot into a dead body.

Go ahead.

Lee Soo-Hyuk.

Now there's a man.

I can see that.

Once while he was on duty...

those guys over there cursed our president.

Soo-Hyuk heard it.

He took a rock and smashed their window.

So I rounded up my men and then told him:

"All right! Way to go!"

Once he got left behind on a search mission.

Man, the squad was in uproar.

Four hours later, he shows up again.

Says he stepped on a mine and had to dismantle it.

Damn!

Anyway, I knew then.

This guy, he's unique.

Nerves of steel, I tell you.

Nam Sung-Shik...

you were on duty with Sgt. Lee on the day of the incident.

- Right? - Yes, ma'am!

I'm not deaf.

Why did Sgt. Lee go out alone?

An urgent call of nature.

Can a soldier leave his post for that?

He said people with constipation...

should seize a chance when it comes.

These are blanks.

Please load the gun as you would normally.

So you refuse to say anything?

I visited Kaesong City and saw the corpses.

If you just wanted to escape, why'd you shoot a man eight times?

I brought photos of the bodies. Do you want to see them?

No.

I don't want to see them.

You've got a nice voice.

Your platoon says you're very quick with the gun.

Are you really that fast? Will you show me?

It's not the speed that's important in a battle.

It's about how audaciously you are carrying on in calm.

That's all.

All right, then.

Can you load the gun again, just like before?

Are you really a Swiss soldier?

Does Sgt. Lee talk much about army life?

He tries to, but I don't let him.

Has he ever talked about, for example...

how he went on any missions...

or if he got special training?

Special training?

Can you zip me up?

Soo-Jung, you don't worry about Sgt. Lee?

We're not really that serious.

What kind of person is he, in a word?

Well...

Oh, you can tell by how he treats my brother.

My brother never had many friends, ever since we were kids.

But after enlisting, things got much better, thanks to Soo-Hyuk.

He's very warm-hearted.

Probably because he grew up poor, like us.

Wait a second.

Your brother?

You didn't know?

Pvt. Nam Sung-Shik, they're in the same platoon.

He kept asking me to meet Soo-Hyuk, so I did.

What?

Is there something on my face?

No, not at all.

There were 11 bullet wounds on the three North Korean soldiers.

Ten bullets were recovered at the scene...

but one was never found.

It's a missing bullet.

There were five left in your gun.

If you add these up, 5 and 10 make 15.

Since you aren't in the habit of loading an extra bullet...

fifteen matches the number you had to begin with.

Then...

what's this one bullet?

It was neither shot by you nor recovered later.

Yet it pierced through a soldier's body.

If someone hid the bullet...